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Disrupted junctional membrane complexes and hyperactive ryanodine receptors after acute junctophilin knockdown in mice.

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2011-03
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Van Oort, RJ
Garbino, A
Wang, W
Dixit, SS
Landstrom, AP
Gaur, N
De Almeida, AC
Skapura, DG
Rudy, Y
Burns, AR
Ackerman, MJ
Wehrens, XHT
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Abstract
Excitation-contraction coupling in striated muscle requires proper communication of plasmalemmal voltage-activated Ca2+ channels and Ca2+ release channels on sarcoplasmic reticulum within junctional membrane complexes. Although previous studies revealed a loss of junctional membrane complexes and embryonic lethality in germ-line junctophilin-2 (JPH2) knockout mice, it has remained unclear whether JPH2 plays an essential role in junctional membrane complex formation and the Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release process in the heart. Our recent work demonstrated loss-of-function mutations in JPH2 in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.To elucidate the role of JPH2 in the heart, we developed a novel approach to conditionally reduce JPH2 protein levels using RNA interference. Cardiac-specific JPH2 knockdown resulted in impaired cardiac contractility, which caused heart failure and increased mortality. JPH2 deficiency resulted in loss of excitation-contraction coupling gain, precipitated by a reduction in the number of junctional membrane complexes and increased variability in the plasmalemma-sarcoplasmic reticulum distance.Loss of JPH2 had profound effects on Ca2+ release channel inactivation, suggesting a novel functional role for JPH2 in regulating intracellular Ca2+ release channels in cardiac myocytes. Thus, our novel approach of cardiac-specific short hairpin RNA-mediated knockdown of junctophilin-2 has uncovered a critical role for junctophilin in intracellular Ca2+ release in the heart.
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Journal article
Subject
Cell Membrane
Intercellular Junctions
Animals
Mice, Transgenic
Mice, Knockout
Mice
Calcium Channels
Ryanodine Receptor Calcium Release Channel
Membrane Proteins
RNA, Small Interfering
Myocardial Contraction
Heart Failure
Gene Knockdown Techniques
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/20330
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10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.006437
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Van Oort, RJ; Garbino, A; Wang, W; Dixit, SS; Landstrom, AP; Gaur, N; ... Wehrens, XHT (2011). Disrupted junctional membrane complexes and hyperactive ryanodine receptors after acute junctophilin knockdown in mice. Circulation, 123(9). pp. 979-988. 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.006437. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/20330.
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Landstrom

Andrew Paul Landstrom

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Dr. Landstrom is a physician scientist who specializes in the care of children and young adults with arrhythmias, heritable cardiovascular diseases, and sudden unexplained death syndromes. As a clinician, he is trained in pediatric cardiology with a focus on arrhythmias and genetic diseases of the heart.  He specializes in caring for patients with heritable arrhythmia (channelopathies) such as long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia,
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